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Chapter 116: Receiving the Hunter-Duke Armor - Emperor Saint Numbers?!

The secret talks that took place in the Governor's office concerned matters of the highest confidentiality.

As of now, only Voges and his daughter, Delton, and the commander-in-chief of the Planetary Defense Forces know that the graduates of the Schola Progenium are about to arrive.

Voges, Tidor, and Delton discussed the details in the office.

After a while, Voges announced the adjournment of the meeting, and Tidor left with brisk steps, her back view hurried and joyful.

Voges showed the kind smile of an old father, smoking his pipe and shaking his head slightly, as if lamenting that daughters are always eager to leave home.

Delton also has a daughter.

He can understand the psychological changes of Voges and Tidor.

Previously, when Li Nuo faced Osgeus's guards alone, Tidor was almost frantic, but fortunately Voges and he stabilized her.

Voges's decision to send out the Hunter-Duke armor is of extraordinary significance, especially for a live-in son-in-law.

As everyone knows, the Hunter-Duke armor is a black technology equipment inherited from the Dark Age of Technology, and its defensive and offensive performance even exceeds that of Space Marine power armor.

After Li Nuo puts on the Hunter-Duke armor, his combat power will skyrocket, and even the Governor's personal guards will not be his opponents.

In this case, if Li Nuo has any ulterior motives, Lord Voges himself will inevitably suffer misfortune, which is equivalent to Lord Voges raising a tiger to harm himself.

Now, Voges sends out the Hunter-Duke armor in advance and allows Li Nuo to choose freely.

This move means that the highly-ranked father-in-law sincerely recognizes the live-in son-in-law and trusts him one hundred percent.

Tidor is truly joyful because of this.

Delton and Voges smiled at each other, and the hearts of the two fathers resonated.

"Sir, I will now go to the treasury to destroy those three metal boxes," Delton took his leave.

"Go ahead. Fortunately, these three metal boxes were not put into the prize pool by me, otherwise things would be tricky."

Voges operated on his cogitator and opened temporary access to the underground treasury for Delton.

On the other side.

Tidor trotted all the way to Li Nuo's residence, where Brandi received her.

"Madam, the master is meditating in the study and may not come out for an hour or two."

Brandi possesses emotional processing abilities that ordinary servitors do not have, and consciously uses "Madam" instead of "Miss" to address Tidor.

"It's okay, I'll just rest here for a while, I've been so busy today," Tidor lay on the sofa with her legs spread apart in an unkempt manner, her arms lazily placed on either side of her body.

She stared at the crystal chandelier on the ceiling, her mind blank.

The scene of Li Nuo interrogating Bejite automatically played in Tidor's mind.

The picture of the memory finally freezes on such a scene:

Five corpses with broken necks were lying at the entrance of the lounge, Bejite, who had just died not long ago, was on the sofa, and her fiancé was standing in the center of the room with a cold expression.

Faced with the provocation of the guards, he remained calm and composed, swift and decisive in subduing the enemy, and logically meticulous and clear-minded when interrogating Bejite.

Her vision is really good, and she was able to discover such an existence with both wisdom and martial power from so many people participating in the cleaning operation.

Tidor chuckled secretly, her mouth turned upward, completely unaware that Li Nuo had already walked out of the study and was looking at her with a strange look.

"What are you giggling about?" Li Nuo snapped his fingers to bring her soul back.

Tidor's eyes focused, she slurped her saliva, jumped up from the sofa, and smiled embarrassedly:

"Hehe, it's nothing. Dad asked me to take you to the underground treasury to pick out a set of Hunter-Duke armor as compensation for the previous conflict. Are you free now?"

"Hunter-Duke armor? Uh, wait, the previous conflict? How do you know what just happened here?"

Tidor shrank her neck, stuck out her tongue, and was a little guilty:

"Actually, when you were communicating with Delton, Dad and I were by Delton's side. That bastard Osgeus dared to treat you like that, he's dead, no one can save him this time."

When she said the second half of the sentence, Tidor clenched her fists, gritted her teeth, and her body trembled slightly because she was too angry.

After two seconds, she slumped her shoulders like a deflated balloon and asked Li Nuo for a hug:

"Fortunately, you are strong enough, otherwise I would be a widow just after getting engaged..."

"Heh, okay." Li Nuo didn't know how to comfort people, so he could only chuckle, pat the other person's shoulder and change the subject:

"Let's go, don't talk about this, let's go to the underground treasury to pick out Hunter-Duke equipment first."

"Okay~ Come with me."

The two went out and met Wick and Mona, who were standing guard at the door.

Wick winked at Li Nuo.

Although Mona maintained her usual poker face, her eyes flickered with gossip.

In front of Tidor, she didn't dare to call Li Nuo by his full name:

"Sir, are you going out?"

"No, I'm just wandering around the mansion, you don't need to follow me," Li Nuo replied with a smile.

"Okay." Mona nodded and watched Li Nuo and the two walk away.

Tidor led Li Nuo into the elevator leading to the underground treasury and asked thoughtfully.

"Are those two agents the ones who partnered with you in the cleaning operation?"

"Yes." Li Nuo's heart moved, and he remembered Wick's pursuit of a noble lady, so he said:

"The female agent who talked to me is code-named Mona, and the male agent is code-named Wick. Their loyalty is beyond doubt, but Wick has a small weakness, he is pursuing a noble lady. I am worried that this noble lady may become a tool for Osgeus to cause trouble again, for example, by forcing the noble lady to be unfavorable to me."

Tidor gently twisted her chin and pondered, "Then I will say hello to Delton later and let him find out who the noble lady Wick is pursuing, and we will prepare in advance."

"Okay, good." Li Nuo touched Tidor's head.

The elevator stopped, and the two arrived at the main entrance of the underground treasury.

There are Governor's personal guards and combat servitors guarding here, and automatic weapon platforms are hidden in the walls, making the defense extremely strict.

After multiple rounds of inspection, Li Nuo and Tidor stepped into the treasury gate.

The servitors inside the door received Voges's order in advance and waited here for the arrival of the two, guiding them to the depths of the treasury.

On the way, the two met Delton.

"Sir, Madam, I have destroyed those three metal boxes." Delton clicked on the data panel, played the process of destroying the metal boxes, and took the wreckage of the metal boxes from the servitor next to him for display.

Li Nuo aimed at the wreckage and activated the Appraisal Technique, sighing secretly in his heart.

It is indeed the strain of Akhe-Harese, but it is all dead.

Forcibly disassembling the metal box activated the internal device, and all the strains were destroyed by concentrated acid, leaving only some worthless residue.

Missing Akhe-Harese's strain again caused Li Nuo to feel a little lost.

However, this loss came quickly and went even faster.

Because in the late Great Crusade, Akhe-Harese appeared in many places, not just this hive city of Epimethius.

He will definitely have the opportunity to hear the information about these fungal aliens in the future, and then it is also possible to collect live samples.

"Thank you, Delton. Li Nuo just talked to me about something." Tidor mentioned the hidden dangers of Wick's relationship with the noble lady.

Delton agreed to eliminate the hidden dangers.

Out of friendship with Wick, Li Nuo suggested that Delton try not to destroy Wick's relationship with the noble lady, so as not to cause Wick to have negative emotions due to lovelornness, which would make him more easily exploited.

"Okay, I understand." Delton nodded in agreement, looking at Li Nuo with a strange look, as if he discovered for the first time that Li Nuo also has such a sentimental side.

"I'm leaving, feel free to order me around if you need anything." Delton bowed slightly and left with the wreckage of the metal box.

"I feel like you get along quite well with your former commander, which is rare," Tidor said with a smile.

"I think this is mainly due to Delton's own self-cultivation. He handles the relationship between me and him very well, and doesn't treat me as a live-in son-in-law like other nobles."

Li Nuo paused and asked:

"By the way, Tidor, Delton is not a local, is he?"

"No, he was born on Terra. He graduated from the Schola Progenium thirty years ago and joined the Solar Auxilia as a commander. It is said that he was once the regiment commander of an elite unit. A few years ago, he was specially allowed by the Departmento Munitorum to retire and leave the front line because of his outstanding military achievements. It was at that time that he was arranged by the Departmento Munitorum to come here to be the head of the agents."

"I see, no wonder I always felt that he was different."

Tidor and Li Nuo talked about the Schola Progenium.

Only then did Li Nuo learn that his father-in-law had found a way out for the future of the hive city.

Now, all that his side lacks is time.

Surviving two to three months, the future is bright.

The servitor in front of the two stopped and connected the gate with a pipe to open it.

"Visitor 0-01, Visitor 0-02, you have arrived at the Hunter-Duke equipment vault. According to the Governor's latest instructions, you can choose a set of Hunter-Duke armor to take away. I will wait here for you two. Please come in."

Stepping into the equipment vault, the scene in front of him shocked Li Nuo.

A metal wall stood in front of him, more than 200 meters wide and more than 20 meters high. The wall hung ten rows and twenty columns, a total of two hundred sets of Hunter-Duke armor.

The twenty sets of Hunter-Duke armor in the top row are the Patriarch-type Hunter-Duke armor with excellent defensive performance and fully automatic combat functions.

The second row is ten sets of "Matriarch" and ten sets of Hunter-Duke armor called "Aurus."

The Matriarch type does not need to be said, its almost perfect stealth effect can even deceive pheromone trackers.

The Aurus type is good at attack and defense conversion.

It can use all the energy to increase the thickness of the shield, or it can transfer the energy to the weapon, greatly enhancing the killing effect.

It is said that the Aurus-type Hunter-Duke equipment in its ultimate state can fire a huge laser beam with a power comparable to that of a ship-borne lance.

The third row, the fourth row, the fifth row...

Looking down at the rows of Hunter-Duke armor, Li Nuo only felt dazzled:

"The Governor family's heritage is beyond my imagination. Tidor, do other families have so many Hunter-Duke armor?"

"Of course not."

Tidor craned her neck, proudly like a little swan:

"Our family's Hunter-Duke armor sets overwhelmingly outnumber those of other families, at least four times as many.

Back when Nest City was first established, our family relied on its numerous Hunter-Duke armor sets to trample all the other families underfoot."

Tidor pressed a spot on the wall, opening a hidden compartment, and took out a data slate, handing it to Lino.

"Currently, in the Voges family, only you, me, and Dad can possess a Hunter-Duke armor set as our own.

Others must return the armor after using it.

Take a close look at this list; it contains all the information you want to know."

Lino took the data slate, quickly flipping through it, his fingertip stopping on a uniquely styled Hunter-Duke armament.

This Hunter-Duke armament was named "Jelarick Praphifall," which is Voges family's ancient language, translating to "Gene Engineer" in Low Gothic.

Other Hunter-Duke armaments rely on firearms to kill enemies, but the Gene Engineer relies on gene-altering pulse waves.

It first scans the target's genetic structure, then emits pulse waves that alter the gene sequence, dismantling the enemy at the genetic level.

The killing effect is related to the genetic defects caused by the pulse waves.

In an undesirable situation, the genetic defects can trigger slow organ fibrosis, and the target may take several years to die.

In an ideal situation, the heart disease caused by genetic defects can kill the target from myocardial infarction within a few days.

From a combat performance perspective, the Gene Engineer-type Hunter-Duke armament performs ordinarily.

In fact, it is an engineering-type Hunter-Duke armor set, rather than an armament.

During the Dark Age of Technology, the biological researchers of the interstellar colonial fleets wore this set of equipment to explore unfamiliar planets.

They used this Hunter-Duke armor set to scan the genetic structures of novel organisms, obtaining valuable gene fragments and storing them in the fleet's gene library for future use.

The most significant feature of this Hunter-Duke armament is that it integrates a complete set of black technology modules related to genetic engineering.

This module is idiot-proof; even an idiot can use it; just press it to get the result.

It can complete the genetic scanning of a humanoid creature within 1 minute, build a holographic model of the genetic structure, and label the function and defects of each gene fragment.

Similarly, when scanning genetic structures, gene analysis equipment from the 30k era required at least 1 hour to obtain a holographic model of a humanoid creature's genetic structure.

One takes 1 minute to complete, and the other takes 60 minutes.

This is enough to show how powerful the gene analysis capability of the Gene Engineer-type Hunter-Duke armament is.

Its gene editing capability is also the same, with operational efficiency far exceeding existing automated gene editing equipment.

Lino studied applied mycology and knows very little about genetic engineering, so he can't perform gene editing work.

More importantly, to engage in gene editing-related work, one must obtain a pharmacist's license issued by the Imperial Medical Department.

The way to obtain a license is five years of full-time study, three rounds of theoretical and practical exams, and completing all credits to become the lowest level pharmacist.

Engaging in gene editing work without a license has relatively serious consequences.

At worst, you'll be arrested by the Enforcement Department, confined, and have your gene editing equipment confiscated; at worst, you'll be labeled a technical heretic by the Mechanicum and physically purged and destroyed to ensure the purity of the Omnissiah.

Lino originally planned to find a trustworthy pharmacist and use alchemical potions or Throne Gelt to hire them to complete the gene editing work for him.

Now, he's changed his mind.

This Gene Engineer-type Hunter-Duke armor set is exactly what he wants.

It not only possesses the defensive power provided by the adamantium armor but also greatly saves the time spent on genetic engineering and avoids the trouble of obtaining a pharmacist's license.

The data slate says that people wearing this Hunter-Duke equipment are specially permitted by the Imperial Department of Justice to carry out genetic engineering projects and will not be branded as heretics.

Because of this, Lino became more and more satisfied with this Hunter-Duke equipment.

All he has to do is teach himself the basics of genetic engineering and avoid making common-sense errors.

He still has the ability to self-study in this area.

Tidor leaned over and glanced at the content on the data slate, giggling:

"I knew you would choose this Hunter-Duke equipment.

Do you want me to have the servitor take it down so you can take a closer look?"

"Okay," Lino responded cheerfully.

Tidor beckoned to the servitor at the door and instructed them with a few words.

The servitor used a pipeline to connect to the equipment vault's control panel and used mechanical claws to remove the Hunter-Duke armor set and send it to Lino.

The appearance of the Gene Engineer-type armor set is relatively simple, looking like the spacesuit worn by astronauts before the Crossing, with a white main body and silver-gray trim.

Its material is mainly ceramite, with adamantium used in key areas.

The built-in genetic engineering equipment is located on the back, placed on the same block as the miniature plasma furnace.

Lino stepped forward and extended his right hand towards the armor's chest plate.

The moment his fingertips touched the metal surface, a system message suddenly popped up, surprising Lino.

[You have come into contact with the Gene Engineer-type Hunter-Duke armor set.]

[Fungal Analysis, Fungal Simulation, and Fungal Warehouse have been temporarily greatly enhanced.]

[After absorbing the genetic engineering module on this Hunter-Duke armor set, the above three functions will be permanently upgraded.]

[Upgrade details are as follows:]

[Fungal Analysis Upgrade Project: Extremely enhances the ability to accurately identify fungi.]

[In the past, when you faced fungi contaminated by miscellaneous bacteria, you could only remove the miscellaneous bacteria contamination through separation and purification.]

[After the Fungal Analysis upgrade, the system will automatically distinguish between fungi and miscellaneous bacteria.

You can directly put the fungi into the warehouse while excluding the miscellaneous bacteria.

This operation will save you the tedious operation of removing miscellaneous bacteria contamination.]

[Fungal Simulation Upgrade Project: Adds automated genetic engineering simulation function, with extremely high efficiency.]

[The system will automatically perform gene analysis, screening, import, detection, identification, amplification, editing, and other operations.]

[Fungal Warehouse Upgrade Project: Unlocks the Fungal Gene Library function.]

[You can store the genes of fungi in the Fungal Warehouse.]

"Hiss — — — —" Lino sharply inhaled a breath of cold air, forcibly suppressing the urge to absorb the Hunter-Duke armor set on the spot.

"How is it? Do you like it?" Tidor said with a smile:

"When you become the Governor, all the Hunter-Duke armor sets here will be yours.

You can wear this set today, that set tomorrow, and change them however you want."

Lino's heart was pounding wildly, and it took all his strength to suppress the excitement in his heart.

"I'll choose this one then.

Can I try it on?"

"Of course, before you put it on, you need to perform multiple bindings."

Tidor guided Lino to pair with the Hunter-Duke armor set, performing voiceprint, pupil pattern, blood type, and gene template pairing operations in sequence.

Under quadruple verification, no one except Lino could use this Hunter-Duke equipment.

The way to wear the Hunter-Duke armor set is much simpler than that of a Space Marine's power armor.

After completing the binding, Lino only needs to scan and verify through the sensors inside the armor, and he can use spoken commands to open the armor.

With a command, the front of the armor opened like petals.

Lino stretched his feet into the armor's foot protectors, stood in it, and the armor automatically closed, perfectly encasing his body.

"Buzz buzz buzz — — — —"

The miniature plasma furnace started, and the armor entered the working state in a slight tremor.

The life support device delivered fresh air, and the electronic muscle bundles and exoskeleton helped Lino support the armor, presenting a more refined holographic field of vision than the Agent armor.

Many virtual labels appeared on Tidor's body, listing her many body data.

182cm, 91-65-91, waist-hip ratio close to 0.7, body fat percentage 26%, evaluated as hourglass figure, S-grade.

"? ? ?"

Lino was stunned for a moment.

How does it feel like this Hunter-Duke equipment is not very serious?

Tidor likes to wear long skirts to cover her lower body and feet.

Lino looked at the data in the holographic field of vision several times, imagining the other party's entire figure, before realizing that his fiancée was a stunner.

"Don't be dazed," Tidor waved her hand:

"Let's go back.

This Hunter-Duke equipment will be placed in your residence.

If an accident happens in the future, you should put it on as soon as possible."

".. Oh, okay, let's go."

Lino's gaze lingered on the data in the holographic field of vision, vaguely noticing something unusual.

How are the numbers 182, 91, 65, and 26 all multiples of 13?

Isn't 13 the sacred number of the weasel?

Damn, is Tidor the Emperor's female disguise?!

Lino shuddered, looking Tidor up and down, causing Tidor to blush shyly.

"What are you doing? Why are you looking at me like that?" Tidor mumbled.

"Tidor, you've kept your figure in such good shape, has it always been this shapely?" Lino probed in a roundabout way, wanting to further confirm whether his fiancée was the disguised female Emperor.

Who knew that Tidor would misunderstand, thinking that Lino was sincerely complimenting her.

Her face became even redder, and she murmured back:

"It's okay.

I've been eating a bit too much lately, so I've gained a little weight and grown a little taller."

Oh, right, right, right, height, weight, and bust measurements are all dynamic changes.

The data in the holographic field of vision just happened to be multiples of 13.

This is just a coincidence.

Lino was certain in his heart, putting this matter behind him.

Tidor whispered, "You don't think I'm fat, do you?"

"No, how is that possible."

The two left the treasure vault, gradually walking away.

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Note: The content of the Nest City reform involves ideology.

This part of the content is relatively sensitive, so it is only presented through indirect narration and is not used as the main plot.